Native Files – Bow Tie Law

Did a Judge Say Scanning of a Native File and OCR?

November 3, 2014 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, eDiscovery, Taxation of Costs

Taxation of cost cases can get funky. One such example is where a party sought costs for discovery to be produced in “OCR” format. The Court went on to state: “The scanning and conversion of native files to the agreed-upon format for production of ESI constitutes ‘making copies of materials’[…]

Excuse Me, PDF's Instead of Native Files?

October 2, 2013 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, Form of Production, Native File, TIFF

Westdale Recap Props. v. Np/I&G Wakefield Commons is a serious case of “no, that’s not right.” It concludes with a Court telling a requesting party that requested ESI as native files that it had not “demonstrated an adequate need to have all the ESI produced in native format.” So much[…]